Two proposed Ford India ads — both depicting women bound and gagged in Ford trunks — forced an apology from the company, but marketing that uses violence against women to sell a product is hardly new.
The One Billion Rising event involves women and men around the world demonstrating and dancing to raise awareness and call for an end to violence against women.
A report by Nobel Peace Prize winners Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu alleges that the "militarization" of anti-drug efforts in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, aided by the US, has actually led to more violence against women, some of whom have been killed when they were mistaken for drug traffickers. Says the report, "The war on drugs ... has become a war on women."
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Chills. Here’s Senator Franken yesterday breaking down while arguing for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, specifically while invoking the memory of his deceased friends, Paul and Sheila Wellstone. The bill passed 68-31.
Today, inspired in part by Republican opposition to renewing the Violence Against Women Act, Fem2.0 hosted a tweetchat under the hashtag #endthesilence. The goal was to spread information about sexual assault and violence against women, and here are 15 thought-provoking tweets that resulted.
